On 07/01/18 03:56, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Juni 2018, 19:50:47 CEST schrieb Daniel Frey: >> Hi all, >> >> Some background: I run mythtv with a single backend and five frontends. >> >> For many, many years I've been using binpkg to help ease the compile >> pain on my Intel NUC Celeron-based frontends. I use distcc on one to >> compile all my packages and export /usr/portage/packages via nfs. >> >> I am wondering if it's possible to get emerge to mount >> /usr/portage/packages before actually emerging anything. I've been >> mounting that directory manually but once in a while I forget to. >> >> Dan > > I don't know much about NFS, but... what about autofs? That would mount the > FS on first access, and AFAIK can unmount it after a period of inactivity. > > HTH >
Thanks all for the replies. I was thinking about a wrapper too but figured there must be a more elegant way. I think autofs will fit that type of solution; I'm going to look into that. Dan
